K’ai-fung-fu, formerly the capital under Chou and Sung dynasties, 42
  visit to the Jews of, 43
Kairin, province of Manchuria, 56
Kalgan, Mongolia, a caravan terminal, 58, 61
Kanghi, the greatest monarch in the history of the Empire, 142
  alienated by the pope, 144
  patron of missionaries, 142
Kanghi, progress of Christianity during his reign, 143
Kang Yuwei, urges reform on the Emperor, 213
Kansuh, province of, comparatively barren, and climate unfavourable to
  agriculture, 55
Kao-tsung, son of Tai-tsung, raises Wu, one of his father’s concubines,
  to the rank of empress, 121
Ketteler, Baron von, killed during siege in Peking, 176
Kiachta, a double town in Manchuria, 58
Kiak’ing, succeeds on the abdication of his father, Kienlung, 144
  a weak and dissolute monarch, 145
Kiangsu province, 25-29
  derivation of name, 25
Kiao-Chao (Kiau-Chau), port occupied by Germans, 30, 165
Kiayi, an exiled statesman, dates a poem from Changsha, 110
Kie, last king of the Hia dynasty, his excesses, 80
Kien Lung, emperor poet, lines inscribed by him on rock at Patachu, 35
  abdicates, after a reign of sixty years, for the reason that he did
    not wish to reign longer than his grandfather, 144
  adds Turkestan to the empire, 144
  dynasty reaches the acme of splendour in his reign, 144
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Kin Tartars, obtain possession of Peking, and push their way to
  K’ai-fung-fu, the Emperor retiring to Nanking, 129
Kin Tartars, the, 140
Kingdoms, the three, Wei, Wu, and Shuh, 112-113
King Sheng Tau, annotator of popular historical novel, 113
Kinsha, “River of Golden Sands,” 52
Komura, Baron, and Portsmouth treaty, 193
Korea, the bone of contention between Japan and Russia, 182, 183, 186, 192
Kuanyin Pusa, a legend of, “The Apotheosis of Mercy,” 108
Kublai Khan, absorbs China, 131
Kung, Prince, and the Empress Dowager, 273
  disgraced and confined in his palace, 273
  personal characteristics, 277
  restored to favour but not to joint regency, 273
Kuropatkin, General, and the Russo-Japanese War, 185-192
Kwangsi, province of, subordinate to Canton, 13
  in an almost chronic state of rebellion, 13
Kwangsu, Emperor, and the Empress Dowager, 172, 173
  his desire for reforms, 197
  imprisoned in a secluded palace, 173, 174
  influenced by Kang Yuwei 173
Kwangtung (Canton), province of, 7-13
Kweichau, province of, the poorest province of China, 52
  one-half its population aborigines, 52
Kweilang, secretary to the Empress, 272
  prompts Prince Kung to strike for his life, 273

Lao-Tse, founder of Taoism, his life and influence, 94
Lhasa, treaty of, 62
Li and Yu, two bad kings of the house of Chou, 88
Liang, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 116
Liang Ting Fen, letter to Dr. Martin requesting his good offices with
  President Roosevelt, 252-253